Archive for the ‘One-to-one Computing’ Category
Friday, November 4th, 2005
Ethan Zuckerman from World Changing had a chance to talk to Nicholas Negroponte recently about the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project. Ethan's report sheds some light on this attempt to build a laptop computer cheaply and ruggedly enough for students in developing nations.
The 1-to-1 project in my own school ...
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Friday, October 28th, 2005
Scott Roiger and I gave our presentation on the Hopkins 1-to-1 computing project this morning. I think it went pretty well and we were fortunate to get a mixer installed in our room so that we could record the session. This may be the first session ever podcast from a ...
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Thursday, September 22nd, 2005
Tim Lauer couldn't make it, but that didn't stop Steve, Will, and me from recording another episode of Ed Tech Coast to Coast Tuesday night.
Our conversation centered mostly on the topic of access to technology and how full-time access changes the teaching and learning environment. Will's school just launched a ...
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Friday, July 15th, 2005
The ADE group that was working on the research around one-to-one learning has started a blog, 1 To 1 Learning, describing the database they designed to track research articles.
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Monday, July 11th, 2005
I've consistently said since I started my current job nearly two years ago that the era of one-size-fits-all professional development needs to end. It may have been appropriate to put 25 teachers in a computer lab for a training program in the early days when none of them had much ...
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Sunday, July 10th, 2005
One of the software purchases I made for next year was a BrainPOP subscription for all of the district's 3rd-6th graders. I had a number of our teachers in the one-to-one computing project work with it on a trial basis and they raved about how much the kids enjoyed the ...
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Monday, June 6th, 2005
I talked for about 30 minutes today to a group of 130 people about our Hopkins one-to-one project and the broader issue of relating to today's digital kids. It was an energetic crowd and I had great time. Awareness of blogs and other Internet technologies is all over the map ...
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Wednesday, May 25th, 2005
Terri Osland, my colleague at Hopkins High School, discovered a handy application that will find a place on our one-to-one laptops next fall. ImageWell is a tiny little program, but it has a bunch of handy features:
Drag images in and out of the well, resize, crop, shape, rotate and add ...
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Thursday, May 12th, 2005
I just discovered Nvu and I think we'll include it on the student laptops in our one-to-one computing project next fall. Nvu is the latest incarnation of the old Netscape/Mozilla Composer which, like the Firefox browser, has been split out of Mozilla into a standalone application.
Most of the people who ...
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Monday, April 25th, 2005
The success of Frank Miller's Sin City in theaters has brought the comic book genre into the spotlight. As a former Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, and Daredevil fan I was quite intrigued when I heard about Comic Life on the MAKE:DIYcast podcast this morning. Comic Life is a Mac OS X ...
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Monday, April 25th, 2005
As much as we'd all like our students to spend all of their time doing hard-core constructivist school work, the fact remains that a lot of the learning we ask kids to do is not much more than memorization. So until cranial expansion slots are commonplace there will be a ...
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Sunday, January 30th, 2005
I'm way behind posting about our Hopkins One-to-one Computing Initiative. I've got some more things to share, but I'll just point to the project Web site for now. One thing to notice is that I decided to use a WordPress blog to host the site, specifically the alpha version that ...
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